Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
198410 ===== Bangkok, Oriental setting And the city don't know what the city is getting The creme de la creme of the chess world In a show with everything but Yul Brynner Time flies, doesn't seem a minute Since the Tirolean Spa had the chess boys in it All change, don't you know that when you Play at this level, there's no ordinary venue It's Iceland or the Philippines Or Hastings or, or this place One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a God in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the God's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me One town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, Brother It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity To be looking at the board, not looking at the city Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town Tea girls, warm and sweet, warm, sweet Some are se...